Can the Apple iPhone 5C be keyed?

A published report out of Taiwan on Wednesday included a video showing one of those alleged Apple iPhone 5C shells undergoing a damage test. In one test, the casing was placed into a bag containing a key and some coins. The phone, keys and bag were shaken up to see how the casing holds up after being in a pants pocket containing the same materials.

According to the report, the plastic shell gets passing marks and even scored a high "8H" on the surface hardness test. The dimensions of the Apple iPhone 5C casing used in the test were 124.55 mm tall x 59.13 mm wide x 8.98mm thick. The Apple iPhone 5 measures 7.6mm thick in comparison. But that can be blamed on the difference between using a premium aluminum material for the full-priced variant of the phone versus using a cheaper (albeit durable) plastic for the budget model.

Another picture in the report showed a blue shell for the Apple iPhone 5S. While the cover included the pill or lozenge shaped dual LED flash, it also appeared to have some sort of film over the part which gave it a grainy look.

Based on the video, it looks like the plastic Apple iPhone 5C will be durable and won't be easy to scratch up. We still have about three weeks left until the introduction of the Apple iPhone 5S and the Apple iPhone 5C, so we should expect more information to leak as we get closer to the big day. We wish that someone would drop a prototype of either model (we're not picky) in a bar somewhere in Silicon Valley so we can get a look at the finished product. But that kind of thing never happens, right?

The aluminium iPhone 5 would have been scratched and dinged all to hell, but it's premium. The plastic has none of those issues, but it's cheap. BTW, aluminum goes for under a dollar per pound. The aluminum in the iPhone is worth about 25 cents.

How much does it cost to pour plastic into a mold to make a galaxy phone compared to bending,all kind of processes. and modifying aluminium to make a unibody iPhone? With your way of thinking a mercedes benz s class should cost few thousands of dollars since its aluminium and plastic and aluminium is so cheap and making something costs nothing according to you.

Nice try at re-interpreting what I said. What about the labor that goes into making something makes the original material more premium? Every layer of labor that goes into something adds cost, that's obvious. A piece of canvas isn't a premium material, but if the right person brushes paint onto it, it can be worth thousands or more. That doesn't make canvas a premium material. It is an appropriate material for painting.

Aluminum isn't a premium material, it's a cheap material. Polycarbonate isn't a premium material either, but it's a material that is not only light and moldable (like aluminum), but is also scratch resistant, doesn't deform on bending and is radio invisible (all of which aluminum isn't). It's a material that makes more sense for a phone.

So you are telling me it costs the same to use plastic the kind of galaxy s4 uses compared of using aluminium and glass that iPhone 5 uses? Aluminium isn't nowhere near a premium material. Carbon fiber is, titanium alloys are too. But if aluminium is used the way apple, HTC, and many other use it, it gives you the FEELING of premium. Thats the key difference here. You think its a coincidence or hate from apple fans that EVERYONE beside Samsung hardcore fanboys believe that galaxy s line feels cheap? P.S. for using plastic you just need to pour it into a pre made mold. To make unibody aluminium case for iphones, htc;s etc you need s**t loads of processes cutting and bending to achieve same thing that plastic does. All that makes the phone FEEL premium. Have you ever seen a plastic watch that's considered premium?

Too "bubble gum", too gay... Why is it that Nokia or Motorola or even Samsung can pick rich shades of colours.?. And the "glossy" shine didn't help the Galaxy S Brand so why do you put it on the iPhone 5Cheap.

The real question is does it have the same magical coating that causes almost everyone to drop their iphone at least twice a month. I mean what is the ratio of prestine iphones vs ones with cracked screens? Has to be 50/50. Rarely seen any other smartphone that is cracked so often.

Any glass can shatter, and the bigger the piece of glass, the more forces will act on it from an equal impact. Assuming the same thickness and glass type, a 5 inch piece of glass is more likely to shatter than a 4 inch piece from the exact same drop.

I didn't prove anyone wrong. I just stated facts. Since no two impacts are ever the same, drop tests are useless. You'd need to repeat it on so many of the same handset just to get any useful data, it'd cost tens of thousands of dollars for each device.

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